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She's come a long way since she and Tony Parsons rocked up at the NME as the hip young gunslingers. Toby Young used to hang on her every word in the mid 80s, which probably tells you everything you need to know.

Piers Morgan is a fucker

And she’s a poor excuse of a inhuman being too. Fuck them both.

Priti Shithell's standard response

Pay cuts for nurses, pay rises for bombs.

People with no principles Scrabble to be the edgiest edgelord, the wind changes and they're stuck with the horrible face they pulled

I think the answer you are looking for is that there is no realistic situation where it is better to have 260 nukes than 180

A strange game.
The only winning move is
not to play.

How about a nice game of chess?

A lot of these commentators seem to spend as much time rehashing old arguments with each other as anything else. Taking positions they know will upset or contradict former friend X or old rival Y etc. So we get rancid opinion pieces from somebody who is still upset by what Toby said at that party where Rod Liddle spiked Melanie Phillips's drink in an attempt to get off with her and this article will really show him/them.

It would just be laughably pathetic except they're politically connected. It's like an endless school reunion where instead of somebody emptying a pint over the head of that guy who slept with their girlfriend they come up with a scheme for forcing "Right to buy" on Housing Associations.

You sunk my battleship

Is it just me or did the Burchill-Sarkar thing get a lot less airtime than the Katie Hopkins stuff?

I mainly encountered Julie Burchill when she was writing for the Guardian (or maybe the Observer, can't remember). I'm pretty sure I never finished any of her articles, let alone wanted to read more.

ffs

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Threaten to hack our computers and we'll turn your entire continent to glass. Seems proportionate.

If you look at sophisticated state level cyber actors who don’t have nuclear weapons it’s Iran and North Korea I think. I’d suspect that neither of them would believe that we would nuke them- not without the say-so of the US.

I wonder what they're trying to distract from...

doing their mate piers a solid and getting him out the news cycle?

Can't imagine a situation where a hack could entirely disable a cuntries ability to launch missiles. Ever.

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piers a solid

Image of him as a curling turd now. No idea why.

It looks like the tories have found a realistic situation where they need more nukes - they're about to start bombing anyone for any old reason

Still surprised Cressida Dick being hung out to dry by the Tories

Her career has been interesting, I didn’t know she spent 2015-17 at MI6* before becoming Met Commissioner until this week

*What she actually did at the Foreign Office is an Official Secret

In what situation is it better to have 260 nukes than 180?

When your deep, nationalist insecurities mean that you wish to be on a level with the Frances and Chinas of the nuclear world, rather than the Pakistans and Indias.

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She probably committed counter-terrorism offences.

Thoes counter terrorist are the worst

Isn’t the submarine fleet the main platform for the nuclear deterrent?

It’s the only platform, the RAF haven’t had buckets of instant sunshine to deliver since the late 90s.

There’s 4 of them, and I doubt they’ve remodelled the interiors to hold an extra 20 nukes a piece.

Each Vanguard has the capacity to hold 16 Trident missiles armed with up to 8 warheads each = 128. In practice, they only sail with 8 missiles and 40 warheads, so there’s plenty of scope to fill them up if, for some mad reason, you thought that was a good idea. The successor Dreadnought subs will only have room for 12 Tridents, so it looks like the plan is indeed to load them up with more warheads per missile.

I saw that Times tweet up there ^ and thought it was a satirical comment on the new trespass powers in the sentencing and policing bill. (Which would be an amusing comparison to make, IMO).

But no. It's real. Actually real.

Nuke me now.

Don’t we have to ask The US first if we want to nuke something?